Definition of Acquisition

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Definition of Acquisition
	Acquisition The act or process of acquiring. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Related Definitions: Acquired, Acquirement, Acquiring, Acquisition, Act, An, As, Gain, Gained, Is, Learning, Of, Or, Process, The, Thing

Acquisition Quotations

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
Jean Piaget

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
Meriwether Lewis

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture."
John Cage

Acquisition Translations

acquisition in Danish is erhvervelse, erhverv
acquisition in Dutch is acquisitie
acquisition in French is achat, acquisition
acquisition in German is Erwerb, Erfassung, Erwerbung
acquisition in Italian is rilevamento
acquisition in Norwegian is ervervelse

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